{"id":7718,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/cosmic-combat\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:55","slug":"cosmic-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/cosmic-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That Hasidic Jews would proclaim Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Messiah seems ludicrous, but no more so than Jesus Christ.  He was born to a<br \/>\npoor homeless woman, showing how God chooses to use underdogs.<\/p>\n<p>A view of Christmas that is rarely portrayed is the cosmic combat found in Revelation 12.  John Milton expressed it in &#8220;Paradise Lost&#8221; and &#8220;Paradise Regained.&#8221;  Heaven and hell are the central focus and Earth is a mere battleground for their clashes.  (More on cosmic combat is given)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Hasidic Jews would proclaim Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Messiah seems ludicrous, but no more so than Jesus Christ. He was born to a poor homeless woman, showing how God chooses to use underdogs. A view of Christmas that is rarely portrayed is the cosmic combat found in Revelation 12. John Milton expressed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258,264,263,260,261,139,262,259],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}